"Nutcracker" in the Obraztsov Theater

Dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the battle of the puppets with mice

Two hundred years, the fairy tale of Hoffmann was fulfilled, but we did not notice ... Apparently, this is a sign: the plot is alive. The godmother still starts the watch, Masha-Marie regrets the wooden freak-and the sovereign prince of confettenburg brings seven crowns of the mouse king on her skewer. At the Christmas time-2017, the puppet was joined by the ballet “Nutcrackers” of Moscow-in the Obraztsov Theater. A very beautiful performance (1 h 30 min) was made precisely according to the Hoffmann, and not by the ballet libretto.

The “Nutcracker” directed by Andrei Luchin (artists - Elizaveta Dvorkina and Muza Sokolov) flaunts the ancient techniques of the puppet theater, plays the scale of the characters, turns actors into dolls and again into people.

Shines on a hill with blue walls, gold windows, black cast iron of the grilles house of the adviser to the medicine of Stalbaum. Dolls on skates and sleds roll on ice paths. The throttle in the XVIII century caftan, in a triangle and a powder wig, raising a lantern, watches the house of friends (or checks the mechanism of the toy that is preparing as a gift for Christmas)? And here-the dolls of Fritz and Marie will disappear behind the screen, and the living heroes of the fairy tale in the same outfits will run out from behind the curtains.

In the second action, a huge toy spruce fills the scene. She herself is the kingdom, dolls, soldiers, soldiers of the children of stalbaums live in her branches, the mouse army emerges from the needles, brave men step on mice from the bell from the “Nutcracker” ballet. Dull gilded, green tube glasses and typewriters of bookcases shines the background - the nursery of the 19th century.

We also love the Nutcracker for the lost paradise of comfort. In the first century of existence of text in Rus', readers were unlikely to feel it so acutely ... But the second century of Hoffmann’s fairy tale, starting in 1916, stubbornly made Marzipanic dolls Marie, the joy of family Christmas, cabinets with toys (and at times - sausages, beloved in the Pyrlipata Bondes), as fabulous for us as lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and lemonade rivers and Sugar city walls of confettenburg.

The nostalgic admiration of the house, where several generations of medicine advisers lived serenely and confidently, ordered the cabinets to the red -drinkers, gave the children dolls and “breathed warmth” - there is in the sample performance. Especially in the scene in the technique of the shadow theater: outside the window, in blue twilight of Christmas Eve, parents of Marie dress up a Christmas tree. Hands take off in starch and lace cuffs. Each ball lights up with a new color light.

And the adult spectator of the Nutcracker begins to think: part of all this is in our power. Bake the gingerbread cookies, put CD with a march from the Nutcracker, open the hofman, bring the children to the puppet theater, show them the famous watches on the facade, the army of puppets, the cardboard palaces of the vertebles, the sewn Indian screens and the other doll carnival in the windows with the collection of S.V. Obraztsova.

"Number heat" in affordable ways. The new "Nutcracker" leads to this thought.